Top 100 Prescott Quotes
#1. In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The story of their efforts is, on the whole, one of pathos and tragedy, of a few successes and many failures
Walter Prescott Webb
#2. Out of her pocket and answers it. I didn't hear it ring. "Mr. Grey," she says. Leila and I turn to look at her. Prescott closes her eyes as if in pain.
E.L. James
#3. That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer.
John Prescott
#4. In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that.
John Prescott
#5. Yuk. Get a room," Nikki complained. "We did. You're in it!
R.J. Prescott
#7. If I want a man I'll go to a cheap bar, like any other sane woman. I, for one, haven't hit rock bottom.
Eleanor Prescott
#8. She tried to ignore the fact that the dazzling, colourful world John had opened up for her had suddenly switched back to grey.
Eleanor Prescott
#9. I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.
John Prescott
#10. It's what inside that counts, she reasoned defiantly. Love conquers all: even mismatched outfits and saggy jumpers.
Eleanor Prescott
#11. Sentences I never thought I would write. (1) That John Prescott certainly has a way with the ladies. (2) Give it to Steve McClaren, he seems like the man for the England job. (3) Peter Crouch is the man to replace Rooney.
Martin Samuel
#12. Lillian looked around the room.
"Where are the others? The Prescott girl and the good-looking one?"
"Baby," said Rusty, "I'm right here.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#13. So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.
John Prescott
#14. The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.
James Prescott Joule
#15. If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer.
Kathryn Prescott
#16. These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false.
John Harvey Kellogg
#17. I'm going to join that dating agency it's going to open me up to new people; widen my horizons'
'you mean lower your standards and get you dating retards!
Eleanor Prescott
#18. I meant it, what I said in hell. You're my glory sword, you know that? My truth.
Cynthia Hand
#19. What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources.
John Prescott
#20. My department is not too big for one man, because I'm Superman.
John Prescott
#21. We had representatives of most every ethnic group in the public school, and I always felt that this gave me a sense of balance about those ethnic problems that was useful to me in later life, and particularly in political life.
Prescott Bush
#22. We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.
John Prescott
#23. She's not forgiven me, but we have a wonderful life from our family and that's the nature and quality of that woman that she can say that.
John Prescott
#24. Labour economic stability has replaced Tory boom and bust
John Prescott
#25. In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
William Prescott
#26. There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes', and he said 'Well, what happened?' and I said 'I was just carrying out your orders. You told us to connect with the electorate, so I did.
John Prescott
#27. The preaching of the gospel is not to persuade people to agree with me in my theological views. The preaching of the gospel so far as I am concerned, is to bring people into personal association with that person with whom I have fellowship.
William Warren Prescott
#28. In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain sense complementary to that of the other.
John Tyndall
#29. [Samuel Prescott was] returning from a lady friend's house at the awkward hour of 1 a.m.
John M. Murrin
#30. And," Kay adds as her final touch, "Christian Prescott is my boyfriend."
I dislike her already.
Cynthia Hand
#31. This man offered her forever.
And if Prescott had asked a month ago ... If he'd asked the day before she'd encountered Jonathan Redmond at midnight outside the Duke of Greyfolk's house ...
Ah, but she was a different woman now. One kiss had changed that.
And a ballroom orgasm.
Julie Anne Long
#32. Someday, I said, when we're old and gray, I'm going to look at you lying in bed beside me, just like this, and I'm going to look into your eyes and know that it's only ever been you. And that is going to be the great joy of my life, Bree Prescott.
Mia Sheridan
#33. I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.
John Prescott
#34. She's gonna know the rooster's in the hen house when she doesn't find me there, so we'd better hurry.
Georgia Cates
#35. I don't get a fair whack, I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose.
John Prescott
#36. When we hold it (amber) in our hands, we hold also that furious epoch where rioted all monsters and poisons, where death fecundated and life destroyed, where superabundance demanded such existences, no souls, but fiercest animal fire - just for that I hate it!
Harriet Prescott Spofford
#37. If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.
William Prescott
#39. I'm not a millionaire. I have a high earning power, but I never did have any capital.
Prescott Bush
#40. There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it.
John Prescott
#41. After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
James Prescott Joule
#42. My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development.
James Prescott Joule
#43. The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.
John Prescott
#44. Some people learn by the mistakes of others, but most of us are the others.
William Prescott
#45. I have to get stronger, harder, and faster. The only way to get hard enough to walk the Apocalypse Road is in the crucible of battle.
Cedric Nye
#46. I actually hate reality TV! I know people love it, but when I watch, I'm analytical, and I'm like, 'This can't be real because of the camera position! And I see the cuts!'
Kathryn Prescott
#47. A more sensitive man than Canon Prescott might have felt that he was de trop.
Agatha Christie
#48. You're my best friend, my missing piece, and the only person who can make my world amazing just by being in it.
R.J. Prescott
#49. Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the routine is rigorously proscribed by law, the law, and not the man, must have the credit of the conduct.
William H. Prescott
#50. Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites.
John Prescott
#51. I've always felt very proud of Wales and being Welsh. People are a bit surprised when I say I'm Welsh. I was born in Wales, went to school in Wales and my mother was Welsh. I'm Welsh. It's my place of birth, my country.
John Prescott
#52. If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.
John Prescott
#53. Historically the buffalo had more influence on man than all other Plains animals combined. It was life, food, raiment, and shelter to the Indians. The buffalo and the Plains Indians lived together, and together passed away. The year 1876 marks practically the end of both.
Walter Prescott Webb
#55. What do you see in a guy like Christian Prescott? he asked me that night when he dropped me off from prom. And what he was really saying then, what would have come through loud and clear if I hadn't been so blind was, why don't you see me?
Cynthia Hand
#56. Kier, do friends kiss each other good luck?" "Hell, yes," he replied in mock seriousness. "I gave Con a good bit of lip loving this afternoon to cheer him on.
R.J. Prescott
#57. Wildly original, brilliantly comic, brutally gruesome, it is a dazzling performance that will probably outrage nearly as many readers as it delights.
Orville Prescott
#58. You go down some street - no doubt it's there, and we have to do something about it, and our programmes are designed to do that - but if that's a picture of Newcastle, it's not the one I recognise and I bet none in the North East do either.
John Prescott
#60. The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love.
Orville Prescott
#62. The great thing about 'Skins' is that it's not '90210.' We don't have to look stick-thin and ripped. Those shows send out the wrong messages by showing body-perfect people but not mentioning that they spend four hours a day in the gym to look that way.
Kathryn Prescott
#63. You're great but you're not there when I go to bed at night or get up in the morning. You don't make me a cup of tea after a hard day at work, or rub my back in the bath. I'm sick of being lonely. Is that so wrong?
Eleanor Prescott
#64. Pyrenean hemorrhagic fever or PHF," Riese told them, her voice registering fear. "Some are calling it the new Spanish flu, others the red death because of the way the infected's blood oozes from every orifice. Except, unlike the Spanish flu, this one's spreading much, much faster." Anders
James D. Prescott
#65. Son, fear lives in the dark. Drag it into the light and you'll see there was never anything to be afraid of in the first place. You tell Em how you're feeling?" he asked, frowning.
R.J. Prescott
#66. The one thing I can assure you is that I'm not going to do a Prescott.
David Trimble
#67. Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.
William H. Prescott
#68. You're only significant relationship of the last decade has been with a married man. Don't you want to be loved, don't you want someone to care about you, to actually give a shit about whether you've had a bad day?
Eleanor Prescott
#69. closed my door as he strode down the hall and banged my head back against it. So much for not falling for him
R.J. Prescott
#71. Learning the way of grace is about truth. It's reconciling the truth, of both our own infinite value and of others' infinite value - despite our depths of
brokenness.
James Prescott
#73. We've given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot.
John Prescott
#74. I love to look at you. I always think of what Gordon Prescott said. He said that you are God's perfect exercise in structural mathematics.
Ayn Rand
#75. So, on May 19th, the woman who had never been the king's wife was executed, for adultery against the king.
H.F.M. Prescott
#76. Just because we don't recognise someone from an area of our own lives, somehow it has become easy to simply ignore them and walk away.
Kathryn Prescott
#77. Grace isn't meant to be fair, grace is meant to be good
James Prescott
#79. I know people who have been without a home for ages, and lots of my friends are sofa surfing because they are in between jobs or saving for degrees and other studies - paying £500 rent every month is just not feasible for them.
Kathryn Prescott
#80. I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.
Rory Bremner
#81. I see this fella built like a barn door ... and there's all these fox hunters, who didn't like me, screaming and shouting and as I walked past him I looked at him and he hit me with something.
John Prescott
#82. Good stuff likes to take up a fair bit of space in your head and you heart. So, this is just your body's way of getting rid of all that poison to make room for the good stuff.
R.J. Prescott
#83. of my face. Diane laid her dripping coat on a chair and searched for candles or a flashlight. Finally locating both in the basket on top of the fridge, she thanked me again. For what, I wasn't certain. "Listen, if the power is out tomorrow morning, come over and shower at my
Daisy Prescott
#85. Bad shit happens all the time. You keep moving forward until you find some happiness that made you glad you kept moving,
R.J. Prescott
#86. When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.
Kathryn Prescott
#87. In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy.
John Prescott
#88. Well," Prescott said, "the chocolate frog was pretty convincing. I didn't really ...
G. Norman Lippert
#89. But I'm terrified of giving up my career only to have the whole thing backfire in my face. What if I move down there and it doesn't work out?"
"What if you don't and you never know what might have been? Can you live with that?
Georgia Cates
#90. No, I really do like the way babies smell. It's like laundry fresh out of the dryer." "Only the dryer is a vagina.
Daisy Prescott
#91. Women rule the world; we just let our men think they do.
Prescott Lane
#92. My parents were always pretty free with me. They were of the school of thought that if you really cramp down on someone and tell them not to do all these things, it's gonna become like forbidden fruit.
Kathryn Prescott
#93. We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in governing the country, only a purpose in trying to hold together the fragile peace in the Labour Party
Andrew Lansley
#94. Let's hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks.
Peter S. Prescott
#95. The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel.
James Prescott Joule
#96. You know friends don't hold hands," I whispered, knowing that there was no way that I was letting go first.
"Huh," he grunted. "Me and Kier hold hands all the time
R.J. Prescott
#97. We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing.
John Prescott
#98. I'm not sure if it's better to be alone but it's probably safer.
Eleanor Prescott
#99. I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.
John Prescott
